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Catherine Rampell · 20 Aug 2026

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Food aid targeted at the people who need it beats selling food below cost to everyone at taxpayer expense.

Their wordsHear me out. What if instead of selling food below cost to all comers at taxpayer expense, then using more taxpayer dollars to subsidize private companies that can't compete, we had a program targeting nutritional assistance just to the people who needed it, as a sort of supplement?

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